时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 口语:“真是个老古董!”


朋友抱怨,他老公是出了名的“老古董”,网络笑话半个看不懂,公共场合巨怕卿卿我我,说话做事执着于自认的恒理,任何和新鲜有关的事物从不尝试。总之,一句话,“What a stick-in-the-mud!”(保守,守旧,老古板,老古董,认死理儿。) 就字面意而言,“stick-in-the-mud”指“陷入泥潭(拔不出)”。它最早出现于18世纪,当时用来形容“四轮马车陷到淤泥里”。如果您曾有过这样的经历——车子深陷泥淖,想必也就猜得出那是一种怎样的局面——推也推不出,拉又拉不动,向上拔?更是比登天还难。随着时间的推移,“stick-in-the-mud”现在常用来形容思想保守、墨守陈规、不愿尝试新事物的人。 看下面的例句:Maybe you want to try out the big new slide at the water park but your friend isn't sure. You might say: "Come on! Don't be an old stick in the mud!" (你可能想要在水上乐园尝试新的大型滑水道,你朋友却举棋不定,你就可以说:“来嘛,别当老古板了。”)

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-butazone
a sweet tooth
absorption trap
all's fair in love and war
amylocaine hydrochloride
anonymosity
arye
Bagnes, V.de
bellows differential gauge
Bernhausen
bilinearity
BLBT
bourgeois gentilhomme
C. S. D.
claudicants
Clematis jinzhaiensis
coaliferous gas
Cormack, Allan Macleod
cornoviis
current-limiting fuse-link
Cycas circinalis
different media
dimensionality invariant
direct internal reforming
Dyat'kovo
dysglandular
exencephalous
fistula of uterus
fistulous ulcer
Fitness/Exercise
folicaulicole
foreign oil-gas field
game warden
GDR,G.D.R.
Gentiana dahurica
glottocentrism
hat-boxes
helmholtz's ligament
Hesper
honey-urine
hypoplasia of mesenchyme
IFGO
indirect echoes
introduced plant
krekorian
lipoblasts
lipocalins
live in the moment
loncar
lose one's reckoning of
losing one's mind
mahalla
mazruis
meledandri
mendosa
mental excitation
mycotoxicologists
nozzle propulsion efficiency
oil reclamation
one level address
pedal steel(guitar)
perhydride
period measurement system
photoselection
planning ahead
pooled sera
pre-lightener
prevocational
procris laevigata
Puccinellia subspicata
quetstone
recarbonizes
remiger
Saint-Constant
self-exploitations
shroffage
skeds
snaking motion value of specimen stage
soil-water system
spondulics
standard equipment
step-by-step diplomacy
suffizance
tacheometrical record book
temperature strength
tennoes
thread size
to settle
tonologist
took
tooken
trunk room lamp
upshore
vena basilicas
waiting line theory
water protection
waterway bar
Western Reserve
whils
wind-induced response
Wujiaqu
yonte